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	Robots On TV - Plot Summaries: 'G'

	Galactica 1980/Battlestar Galactica (1980)
		A 10-episode television follow-up to the Battlestar Galactica film, in which the crew of the Galactica has found Earth, but discovered that civilization there is not sufficiently advanced to help them fight the Cyclons. They therefore decide to accelerate Earth's technological progress. While the Cylons appear throughout, two episodes are 'worthy of  note' *:
		The Night the Cylons Landed (1980)
		A Cyclon craft crashes on the East Coast, but its crew - the human-looking android Andromus and the Cylon Centurion Andromidus - manage to escape. Because it just happens to be halloween, the two have no trouble moving around in public, and plan to take over a New York radios station in order to call down the Cylon fleet.
		The Return of Starbuck (1980)
		Teenage genius Dr. Zee has a dream in which he sees the missing Lt. Starbuck who has crashed on a desolate planet, and who has reassembled a Cylon for company.
		*This may not be the right expression, as the series has the dubious honour of being voted the third worst science fiction show of all time by American critics.
	Galloping Galaxies! (1985-86)
		Zany 10-episode children's science fiction comedy series about the crew of the merchant spaceship Voyager (...no relation), under the control of SID, an authoritative computer. The ship was pursued by a villainous space pirate and his band of disintegrating robots. Featured robots 7, 20 and 35.
	Gemini Man (1976)
		While carrying out an underwater salvage operation, Sam Casey gets caught in a 'radiation explosion', that affects his body's molecular structure, with the result that he can make himself invisible whenever he wants.  As a result of his new talent, he's recruited as a secret agent. The only catch is that if he stays invisible for more than 15 minutes each day, he'll stay invisible permanently.
		Minotaur (1976)
		This episode featured a huge killer robot that patrolled a vast industrial complex.
	Get a Life (1990-92)
		A comedy series about the peculiar adventures of a 30-year old paperboy -Chris - and his very odd parents. The show featured plot lines about aliens and beheadings, amongst other things.
		Paperboy-2000 (1990)
		Chris and his paperboy colleagues are sacked and replaced by a robotic Paperboy-2000 paper delivery machine. Chris goes to the rescue when the robot runs amok.
		The Paperboy-2000 machine was a refurbished version of the 'Landmaster' vehicle used in the film Damnation Alley.
	Get Smart (1965-70)
		A comedy series about Maxwell (Max) Smart (Agent 66). Max is an eager but thoroughly inept secret agent who, together with his colleague 99, works for the intelligence agency CONTROL - headed by The Chief - and who is continually trying to outsmart (ouch) the machinations of the evil organization KAOS.
		Back To The Old Drawing Board (1966)
		KAOS sends a killer robot - Hymie - to kidnap Professor Shotwire, but Max and 99 manage to convert Hymie into a good robot, who then joins CONTROL.
		It Takes One to Know One (1967)
		KAOS femme fatale Octavia is killing off CONTROL's number two men by driving them insane with lust, so Chief appoints Hymie as the new Number Two man, thinking that Octavia's charms will have no effect on him. However, Octavia is also a robot, and Hymie falls madly in love with her.
		When Good Fellows Get Together (1967)
		A KAOS scientists builds Groppo, an indestructible killer robot, whose purpose is to destroy Hymie. Aware of this, CONTROL upgrades Hymie, who - along with Max and Agent 42 - goes to a ghost town to hone his new skills. Max realizes that there is still no way that Hymie can defeat Groppo unless he is reprogrammed for evil, but Hymie won't have that and runs away, only to return when he sees Max fighting Groppo on his own.
		Run, Robot, Run (1968)
		KAOS agents disable three American athletes just before an international track meeting, and it's up to Hymie to save the country's honour by winning the high jump, the discus throw competition and the one mile run.
	Gilligan's Island (1964-67)
		An American cult comedy series. During what was intended to be a 3-hour pleasure trip, a typhoon blows up and a small boat is shipwrecked on an uncharted island. The series follows the adventures of the 7 castaways, together with the many guest stars who - for an episode at least - shared the castaways' fate.
		Gilligan's Living Doll (1966)
		An experimental Air Force robot parachutes onto the island. The castaways reprogramme the robot to walk to Hawaii and tell the authorities there about their fate, but the 'lucky rabbit foot' that they stuff into the robot causes it to go haywire when it reaches its destination.
	The Girl Who Loved Robots/Wednesday Play: The Girl Who Loved Robots (1965)
		A BBC play. When a nightclub hostess is found murdered, Inspector Antrobus soon tracks down the culprit - an astronaut about to leave for the Moon. (I know virtually nothing about this, but assume from the title that it did feature robots. If anyone knows anything about this play, please email me.)